This book and lesson plan work well for students who are learning to make connections while reading. Readers can make connections to what they know about having pets and also what they know about feeling nervous while spending the night somewhere new.

Readers will have many opportunities to combine picture clues and their own experiences to infer how each character might be thinking or feeling about the events presented throughout this story.

With a clear beginning, middle and end, Henry and Mudge offers early readers effective practice in retelling and summarizing key events and conflicts. The author clearly relates several different problems in the story: physical problems created by Mudge's clumsiness and emotional consequences when two friends are separated.

The descriptive language in Henry and Mudge makes it easy for early readers to practice creating images in their mind to enhance their comprehension. Students will enjoy visualizing Mudge's destructive mishaps at Grandma's house. And what might those bedtime thumps be that keep Henry up at night?

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps by Cynthia Rylant as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how r-controlled vowels (bossy R) are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Read Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Henry and Mudge and the Bedtime Thumps includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.